Performance/Scalability

[Chris L.]

I need to do bulk document merging (merging data into a Word template) using the Word object. I like to know what the performance is and how scalable of the object is. Any input would be appreciated

Thanks
C.

 

[Jezebel]

as long as your piece of string. There's no way to answer this question in
general. What sort of bulk have you got in mind? Are you creating one huge
document, or many small ones? Word's performance is mostly pretty good,
especially if you run it hidden and without any reference to the Selection
object. It can get a bit slow if you create a very large document then make
changes that require frequest repagination.

No idea what 'scalability' might mean in reference to the Word object.

I need to do bulk document merging (merging data into a Word template)

using the Word object. I like to know what the performance is and how
scalable of the object is. Any input would be appreciated.

 

[Jonathan West]

When I said "bulk", I meant merging of data into the template (a couple

pages) and producing thousand of documents in a day.

Hi Chris,

Word's mailmerge feature is designed for exactly this kind of application.

Cindy Meister's Mailmerge FAQ is a good place to look for info about this
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

Also the mailmerge articles on the Word MVP site
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/index.htm

 

[Jezebel]

I created a VB app a few years ago that used Word for report output. At
times we were producing over 5000 reports in a single overnight run. Boring,
but effective.

When I said "bulk", I meant merging of data into the template (a couple

pages) and producing thousand of documents in a day.

 

[Chris L.]

Thanks for everyone's input! I appreciate it!